From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: example of machine generated Ada ?
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:14:33 +0200
Date: 2013-10-03T08:14:33+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb4gaaF4ifnU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2013100300100162749-rblove@airmailnet>
On 13-10-03 07:10 , Robert Love wrote:
> On 2013-10-02 17:37:04 +0000, Patrick said:
>
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> I am just daydreaming about generating Ada from another language.
>>
>> Several languages use C as an intermediate language but hand written C
>> is hard to read and machine generated is even more painful. Ada might
>> make for reliable, readable machine generated code.
>>
>> Thanks-Patrick
>
> There was a product in the 90s called Matrixx, it let you draw flow
> charts and type in algorithms and drag connections between components
> your created graphically. You pushed the button and out popped some of
> the ugliest Ada you can imagine. My point is you can have code
> generators but there is no guarantee of the quality, readablity or
> maintainablity.
If I remember correctly, the motivation for including a goto statement
in Ada was that automatic code generators might need it. This perhaps
shows what kind of code was expected from such generators...
--
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-02 17:37 example of machine generated Ada ? Patrick
2013-10-03 5:10 ` Robert Love
2013-10-03 6:14 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2013-10-05 15:46 ` Martin
2013-10-03 5:40 ` Simon Wright
2013-10-05 2:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-10-05 7:22 ` Simon Wright
2013-10-03 9:01 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-10-03 11:38 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2013-10-03 13:12 ` Patrick
2015-01-09 21:33 ` Paul Rubin
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